Showing posts with label cabbage rolls. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cabbage rolls. Show all posts

Monday, August 3, 2020

Making Cabbage Rolls or NOT!

So when someone gets a nice big head of cabbage, some fresh tomatoes, and green pepper, and some garden fresh onions - what does one do.  Make cabbage rolls of course.
So I set out to do just that.  I washed the produce - chopped the pepper, tomatoes, and onion.  I had previously put the hamburger in the crockpot to cook with tomatoes and the onion.  I cooked rice in tomato juice -- everything was prepared and so I began...

I boiled the cabbage leaves so they would be nice and rollable (is that a word?).  Cut out the large hard stem down the middle - then I laid a leaf down and started the filling.


This picture was more what I envisioned ... but my culinary skills do not match my mental image.

I filled several but they were not holding together well at all.  I needed help.  But no one was around. 

So I decided the ingredients might look better as a casserole (and the ingredients would taste the same right?)

 A layer of cabbage, the rice and filling, and another layer of rice and then the cabbage.
Garnish with a sprikle or two of pepper and tomato -- ready to finish off in the oven.
Cover with tomato juice or vegetable stock, and bake at 350 degrees for 10-20 minutes.